So this way you connect the external pot of the volume pedal. In Pic 8 & 9 the green is the ground and white is the signal, which should have been black and green respectively corresponding to Pic 7. It was during my experimentation so please be cautious. Pic 8 and 9 does not have the colour combination as stated earlier. Now connect the ground, in my case black, to the center point of the volume pedal pot, yellow to the left and green to the right as shown. Use same coloured wires as in case of the axis pot for ground, power and signal. Solder wires to those points in the stereo female jack. Now again with the help of multimeter determine which is the tip, ground and the other signal. Remove one of the mono ¼ “ female jacks with the ¼’’ stereo female jack. Step 6 : Get a volume pedal and remove all the connections inside. It’s because the female jacks will be connected to the pots having the 3 points power, ground signal. Remember which is the ground and the two signals. But please make a schematic of it before you do the connection. Connect the male ¼’’ jacks to the stereo cable by soldering of course. Step 5 : Now take a stereo cable and two pairs of male female stereo jacks. Strip the wires of the LED at the places marked with red in the Pic 6 and solder wires to connected another LED which will be on your main frame along with external switches. Step 4 : Now connect an external LED to the LED corresponding to the Analog key. Remember none of the keys must be on until you put it on. Green dots indicate the separation) or else that key will always be on. The two points must be separated (separation we talked in step 2. There’s very little space between two points.Īfter that you may solder the wires to the number keys. Just be careful not to bridge the connection while soldering. These 3 wires will be connected to the pot of the external volume pedal later on. In my case yellow wire is the power, black the ground, and green the signal.
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Please use proper coloured wires so that it does not confuse you while finding which is the power, signal or ground. Just solder 3 wires to the three points behind the pot as shown in the Pic 3. You need not take away the pot from the circuit. You may use either the X axis pot or the Y axis pot or both in case you have two pedals. First get the wires soldered to the Axis pot for connecting the expression pedal. Just gently scratch the copper plating a little bit so that the solder will stick to it. Step 3 : Now it time to solder wires across every number keys. You need to do this step for all the number keys you intend to use and also for the ANALOG key. Have a close look at the red circle in Pic -2, and see how I have separated it. So in my case I have separated the power (P) and the ground (G) for the number keys just by removing the copper plating right through the middle so that the power and the ground gets well separated and I get some room for proper soldering. But it is indeed very difficult to solder it as the connection gets easily bridged. Step 2: Remember you only have to solder wires to the number keys from 1 to 12 and connect them to external keys. You will need it for the pedal.Īs you can see I have also fixed the two small circuits to the main circuit to make it more compact.
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It’s the LED corresponding to the analog switch. Don’t rip off the LED you see in the picture. Then I have fixed the pot circuit to the main circuit. It is mainly used to prevent lick from pipes. I hope you can see how I have fixed the white cable connecting the pot circuit and the main circuit, with an adhesive called M-SEAL. Do it for the cables at the top of the circuit connecting two small circuits having the keys 5, 6, 7 & 8. In my case I had put some glue to fix the cables firmly at the joints so that it does not move at all. Very often the cable may give away at the joints. Please take care of the cable connecting the axis pots with the main circuit. Take off the two vibrations motors if any simply by cutting the two wires gently.
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Here I’m going to describe the procedure which I have used while making the midi foot controller. Procedure of making the MIDI foot controller for Guitar Rig 3 & 4
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Home made MIDI foot controller for Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 & 4 video :